best bipod position and new night vision!!!
This is a rock mount bi-pod (walmart). Many were concerned with placement of the bi-pod through the set screws along the barrel, i.e. putting unwanted pressure on the barrel affecting accuracy…. I too was worried about this, so I simply removed the fore grip and used the most forward dimple that is found inside of the arm as my guide to drill a hole through the grip with a 3/16″ bit, and as aforementioned in a previous topic I used a 10-32 sling stud easily found at any gun shop or at wally world via Uncle Mikes sling swivel mount kit (8.95) I inserted the stud through the drilled hole and placed the nut next to it on the inside of the fore grip to allow me to discern how much of the stud I had to cut off. Cut off with hacksaw or band saw, a dab of locktight and its as easy as that. The benefit of this placement is that it alleviates any concerns of negatively affecting point of impact, and it also gives the bi-pod a much wider base to mate up to. I have large hands and I still have plenty of room left on the grip to hold the rifle comfortably. This placement also seems to be perfectly balanced (for me that is). If you have any questions send me a line. The night vision scope you are looking at is an ATN gen 2+ ps22 attached to a Nikon 3x9x40mm prostaff. Nothing beats taking out those varmints under the cover of complete darkness @ any range the rifle is capable of! And to make it even better, we have a report of a rabid gray fox running around our neighborhood. It made national news (port saint lucie, Fl) Peace!
80-GRIT
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As Get the BJ has said, that is really not the best location. While many people have it mounted there it is better mounted on the frame or onto an an adapter which is mounted to the frame.
Personally I like the mounted adapter over drilling the frame.
Thats it! You guys are gonna make me tap another hole and put another bolt in 👿
I have my bipod mounted the same as 80 grit – BUT I have a very light plastic bipod. I wouldnt put my harris clone there for the reasons gtbj describes. It might very well hold up, but I’m extremely anal when it comes to stresses, scratches and things wearing out.
Damn nice NV tho !
Whats good about the ps 22 is that it can be attached in front of your existing day time optics. You do not need to take off your scope, put on a nv scope, zero, then take off your nv to put your day time optic, then re-zero that one and so on….It is much easier this way. You can use it on any 40mm objective or you can mount it via weaver/picatinny to mate up to an ACOG or any odd shaped optic. Clarity on this gen2+ one is very good. It also comes in Gen 3 or 4, but now your talking upwards of 5,000.00. This one was on sale at Cabellas for 1750.00
Now you are talking! That is what I was looking for. Empirical evidence can not be disputed. I respect the time that you have in and the knowledge that you have extracted. I must confess, sometimes I am pig headed, but aren’t we all at times? I must work on this. Anyway, if it strips loose, I will re tap and then tap another bolt through the fore grip (two in all). I apologize for my verbal lashing, but alas I did get more info out of you…thanks again.
80GRIT 😆
You seem to be agitated, frustrated, and or antagonistic. These forums are meant to be informative, sharing, educational. I appreciate any altruistic replies, but: “you’ll find out” is certainly anything but. Good day to you sir.
80 GRIT
I neither agitated, frustrated, and or antagonistic, In fact I have a big assed smile on my face and a chuckle in my voice. 😆
your right this is for information which I tried to give to you but for some reason you feel you know more than some one that has had one of these for many years as well has been reading and conversing about them for almost as long. perhaps you should try searching the subject out for your self and read how many frames have been striped by what you and your expertise are attempting to do, now if your too pig headed to listen to advice then you will not last long here and I’ll probably turn you in to a pet project of mine 😉
Dear Mr. Get the Bluejay,
You seem to be agitated, frustrated, and or antagonistic. These forums are meant to be informative, sharing, educational. I appreciate any altruistic replies, but: “you’ll find out” is certainly anything but. Good day to you sir.
80 GRIT
That’s not what I was referring to, you’ll find out
Is the PS-22 NV any good?
I am looking at NV and that is on my list.
That is, I did not intend….(typo)
Forgive me, I did intend to take credit for being the first to put it in this position…in fact, the reason I titled my topic “best bipod position” was because of a previous topic titled that where the gentleman put his in a more forward position prompting forum concern about possibly shifting point of impact. I apologize if I came across as a Thomas Edison wannabe. Peace!
O.K. but your certainly not the first to put it there 🙄
The single screw that holds the fore grip is much thicker than the small diameter set screws…I deduced that this will hold up much better than any position under the barrel. If this was under any recoil strain I would be concerned, but since there is hardly any recoil at all, I think this will hold up well without any stripping, but alas only time will tell, and if one is truly anal one can simply tap out another hold through the grip into the frame. Thanks.
80Grit
be careful with the bipod mounted on the forearm like that, that forearm is held on with a single screw and is going into fairly soft aluminum with the added torque from moving the sprung arms on the bipod it will eventually strip those fine threads.
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Adam,
that adapter is awesome. I agree, that would be the best mount for strength and it even looks bad ass.
But since I already did it this way, I will keep it like this for now. I found this picture from talontunes.com (see link below) that shows a similar mount of a heavy bi-pod, however, the way I did it is even less prone to stress as mounting it directly into the lower frame rail via tapping or a pre-existing tap will put stress directly on the nut and thread. By putting it on the fore grip any stress from opening and closing or planting the pod on the ground will diffuse through the grip before it transfers to the larger diameter fore grip bolt.
In the end I concur that the mount Adam showed is hands down “The Best”.
http://www.talontunes.com/id22.html